Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 2 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |
| 3 | Cos my feet have been in them now , can you put these like that ? |
| 4 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 5 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 6 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 7 | A customer asked Sarah if her brother had been near Guernica in Spain when bombs were dropped on it from aeroplanes . |
| 8 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 9 | If your apprenticeship has been in the district where you intend to farm , so much the better , for you will have experience of local conditions and friends to help you look sensibly at whatever offers . |
| 10 | If your cash has been in the same account for some time , make sure it has n't been closed to new customers . |
| 11 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 12 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 13 | which is quite rich coming from him , considering his son 's been in prison I do n't think |
| 14 | And I think that 's the , the problem with your focus , because what has really happened , over the last , well I suppose since your government 's been in power even , or even before . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 16 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
| 17 | As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 18 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 19 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |
| 20 | In time the Pomeranian Poles would have undoubtedly been absorbed into the German-language community as their forbears had been in previous centuries . |
| 21 | High as their hopes had been after the OpEC price rise of 1973 , the Group of 77 failed to get substantial support for its proposed Integrated programme for Commodities . |
| 22 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
| 23 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |